American Reacts to The Treasures of the Palace of Versailles

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@NicolasViard-kc9dm Ай бұрын

Just a couple things. Napoleon never ordered to fire on the sphynx nor the pyramids. They had long been in that state. What is called the battle of the pyramids actually took place miles away. Under Louis XIV France was by far the most populous country in Europe. The soil is very fertile. On the other hand the taxes were crazy heavy, since the country was constantly at war with pretty much everyone and most of the population struggled to have a decent life.

@domitiusafer Ай бұрын

Correct, bombing the pyramids would have been of no military use for Napoleon and the battle in question is located about twenty kilometers from the pyramids. Napoleon named this battle of the Pyramids for propaganda purposes in order to enhance the prestige of a battle won against a horde of Bedouins largely and quickly outclassed by the firepower of the French army, including its artillery. France, thanks to its temperate climate, its many rivers and rivers has always been a very rich agricultural country, attracting the envy of its neighbours, so that the well-fed French population, resists epidemics better and will remain the most populous of the European continent until the beginning of the 20th century ahead of Russia.Thus, well fed, the French do not migrate abroad unlike other populations whose soil is poor such as Italy, Ireland, the Scandinavian countries.The very large population explains that France managed to become the 1st European power and then the 1st world power under the reign of Louis XIV. This allows the king to collect many taxes and many soldiers . Louis XIV is in fact following the policy initiated in 1624 by the cardinal de Richelieu, appointed and supported by the king Louis XIII father of Louis XIV. Before his death in 1642, Richelieu appointed King Louis XIII as his successor, Cardinal Mazarin who, upon the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, became the mentor of the young King Louis XIV aged 5 years until his death in 1661 when Louis XIV aged 22 decided to govern alone without a prime minister pursuing the Richelieu and Mazarin’s policy.Thus at the price of a crushing fiscal policy provoking many revolts crushed in blood whose most famous will be that of the Fronde in 1648-1651 forcing to temporary exile Mazarin and the court with the young Louis XIV to flee from Paris rebelled France could dispose simultaneously of what will not happen in history of a powerful army capable of defending and fighting at the same time all the land borders of the kingdom facing Spain, Italy, Germany and present day Belgium but also a navy whose number of ships exceeded both the English and Dutch navies capable of defending its colonies; This will not happen again because for Richelieu, who founded the French colonial empire and the French navy, the real power lies in being able to move troops anywhere on the planet.The French army, which numbered 30,000 men at the beginning of the reign of King Louis XIII in 1610, reached 500,000 by the end of the reign of King Louis XIV in 1715 this allows Louis XIV’s France to resist and defeat alone large coalitions of foreign states (Spain, Holy Roman Empire, England, Netherlands, Portugal, Savoy);Louis XIV makes a masterful geopolitical coup by imposing at the end of his reign, against the European states united against France, his grandson the Duke of Anjou as king of Spain and his immense colonies in South and Central America, in the Caribbean, the Philippines(.Imagine in the middle of the cold war, the president of the United States impose his vice president as head of state of the USSR;)This is a complete reversal of the situation because a century earlier, Spain was the dominant world power and the ambassador of Spain under the regency of Marie de' Medici, mother of the young king Louis XIII, sat in the French council of ministers with deliberative voice, so that France, exhausted by the wars of religion between Protestants and Catholics, was de facto vassalized to Spain.Louis XIV at the end of his reign not only considerably enlarged the kingdom of France by seizing the Roussillon, the Cerdagne, Alsace, the France Comté, the Flanders, the Artois, the city of Dunkirk, the Principality of Orange, hereditary fief of the King of England William of Orange, part of Savoy and several cities in Belgium, Germany and Italy giving France almost its current geographical form (only later under Louis XV Corsica and the Lorraine, the Comtat Venaissin under Louis XVI, and under Napoleon III the rest of Savoie and the county of Nice will complete this but France will have lost the Italian, German and Belgian cities held under Louis XIV)The France of Louis XIV also indirectly controls Spain and its European possessions (kingdom of Naples and Sicily in Italy ) and its gigantic colonial empire in South America except Brazil, and Central America with Mexico including many modern US states (Texas,New Mexico, California,Arizona, Nevada, Utah).The France of Louis XIV itself controls a huge colonial empire with islands in the West Indies, in the Indian Ocean, Senegal in Africa, territories in India as well as in North America Canada and Louisiana named after King Louis XIV, Not limited to the present state of Louisiana, but encompassing a territory from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico representing 13 of the present-day U.S. states some cities of these states have retained their French names such as Detroit, Saint Louis, Nouvelle Orleans;The French world domination is poorly accepted by other European states including the English deprived of the possibility to trade with France and Spain and not able to access the immense French and Spanish colonies in the world, Hence the development of piracy and Franco-British rivalry during the 18th century until the beginning of the 19th century.France at the end of the reign of King Louis XV great grandson of Louis XIV, will not be able to maintain the fiscal pressure that would allow it to maintain both powerful armies in Europe and a powerful navy, and will make the choice to reduce its navy, allowing the English to gradually take control of the seas, thus preventing the French navy from transporting troops to defend the French colonies, so that in 1763, France lost almost the"colonial empire built under Richelieu and Louis XIV notably Canada and the Indies conquered by the British who naturally protected from land invasions by sea can devote exclusively their efforts on a powerful war navy taking advantage of the fact that the France must also fight on the same continent and in the urgency to ensure the defense of its land borders especially in the north and east its weak point because these French terrritoires are vast plains conducive to invasions because they lack of natural obstacles, Hence the need for the French to take control of the river the Rhine in order to have a natural obstacle to invasions such as the mountains of the Alps and the Pyrenees to the south.

@richardhoyau936 Ай бұрын

@@domitiusaferpour infos la monarchie française ne levai pas de troupes militaires en tant que conscrits comme le fait la république sont armées étaient composés de professionnels volontaire petite rectification que voilà

@domitiusafer Ай бұрын

@@richardhoyau936 Not exactly, conscription in the form of forced recruitment is set up in France at the end of the 17th century by Louvois the minister of war of louis XIV from the war of the league of Ausgbourg (the provincial militia) which thus allowed the French army to reach the figure of 500,000 men, during the war of succession of Spain , considerable number for the time.There was also forced recruitment among sailors because all men from the port cities and maritime areas could be requisitioned in wartime to serve on the king’s warships.But this system caused much discontent and revolts because it also penalized the rural economy because the soldiers requisitioned being essentially peasants did not cultivate the lands and the successors of king Louis XIV during the 18th century could not maintain this system and this high level of taxation, which will lead to a gradual weakening of French military power.The extremely expensive French navy will be sacrificed to the benefit of land armies because France offered to land invasions and forced to defend several borders because it must fight simultaneously not only on the sea and in its colonies, but also in northern Italy, in Germany and in the north of the actually Belgium, can not maintain the military effort on sea, unlike the Great Britain, protected naturally by the sea from land invasions which can thus devote the exclusivity of its financial efforts to the navy of war to protect its coasts and its colonies and transport its troops in the French colonies and colonies that the French occupied fighting on the European continent on several fronts have no longer been possible in the 18th century, unlike the reign of Louis XIV, to release large numbers of troops to send them defend their colonies or the fleet sufficient to transport the troops from France to the colonies by protecting them on the sea. It was not very long, moreover, that Louis XIV, after taking control of Spain and its immense colonial empire, did not gain control of England because the French fleet of the corsair and future admiral Duguay-Trouin had little to do with seizing the ship carrying the Dutch head of state William of Orange called by the English parliament to replace the Catholic king Stuart James II. William of Orange would prove to be the deadliest enemy of Louis XIV and his capture by the latter would have allowed Louis XIV to take control of the Netherlands and above all restore King James II Stuart on the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland so that the latter, before its restoration to France, would have become the obligor of Louis XIV allowing France to control Great Britain , it is imagined Louis XIV head of a coalition between France, Spain and Great Britain can s"to use the British and Spanish fleets to control the sea, which would have allowed it to relieve France of its tax burden by preserving powerful French land armies. Under the reign of Louis XIV, for the only time in history, France dominates on land and sea, Admiral Duguay-Trouin even achieved the feat of seizing in 1711 the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, which was then a colony of Portugal allied with England and forced the Portuguese to abandon the English alliance in exchange for the restitution of Rio de Janeiro. Répondre

@clio2rsminicup Ай бұрын

51:40 Did you know? The Swiss watchmaking industry, so famous today, owes a lot to France (like many things in the modern History of the world). In the 16th century, French watchmaking and watchmakers were known to be among, if not, the best in the world. But in the 16th century, unfortunately for the country, the big religious civil war also took place in France between the French Catholic clan and the French Protestant clan. The vast majority of French watchmakers were located in the East of France and were Protestants. In the heart of this religious civil war, they fled France to take refuge where in your opinion? In neighboring French-speaking and/or Protestant Switzerland, bringing with them all their know-how that would enrich and boost Swiss watchmaking... As often and even always, past history explains current events. QED

@cristinadasilva9519 Ай бұрын

Most of the furniture is NOT recreated. They do their best to find the original ones. The fabrics are redone because they are to deteriorated or have totally disappeared. Furniture can also come from other castles that belonged to the person that lived at Versailles as well and restored. Each piece of furniture had a number registered. It helps to find them nowadays.

@edding3000fr Ай бұрын

c'est trop cool que tu t'intéresses au patrimoine Français :) Merci d'un Français passionné d'Histoire !

@laurentdevaux5617 Ай бұрын

C'est en effet bien, mais l'entendre parler de bière Chimay quand il entend la conservatrice parler de cheminée, c'est assez tordant. Et heureusement qu'il n'a pas suffisamment de culture pour relever toutes les erreurs, soit des intervenants, soit des sous-titres... traduire le nom du peintre Boucher en butcher, il fallait oser ! Et je ne parle pas du gugusse qui ose dire que la Pompadour a refusé d'embrasser Mozart parce qu'elle était hautaine, c'est du grand n'importe quoi. Madame de Pompadour n'était pas du tout la personne hautaine que des gens malintentionnés ont décrite, et si elle n'a pas embrassé le petit Mozart, c'est qu'il y avait une bonne raison à cel : elle était gravement malade, tuberculeuse au dernier degré, elle n'a tout simplement pas voulu le contaminer. Prétendre le contraire et trouver une raison bidon alors qu'on travaille au château de Versailles, ça relève de l'incompétence crasse !

@Searover749 Ай бұрын

les sous-titres auto générés sont vraiment à améliorer ! Tous les noms propres sont déformés, et aussi certains mots usuels...

@thierryf67 Ай бұрын

The little Trianon was given to the queen Marie-Antoinette, but i guess (if not wrong) that little village / farm was built for her.

@CROM-on1bz Ай бұрын

When you see the magnificence of the Palace of Versailles you realize the immense power of the French monarchy, just to redo the tapestries in the king's bedroom... 40 kg of gold, it's completely crazy. When I think that during a discussion with an American Internet user he compared France as a third world country compared to the United States. I still laugh about it.

@morphilou 29 күн бұрын

loooool versailles with the furniture estimate at 50 billions , for 1 castle only the trump tower is 100% shit in comparaison

@nox8730 25 күн бұрын

@@morphilou You are comparing caviar with sausages.

@MerryXmasMfkrs 23 күн бұрын

@@nox8730More like caviar with sardines ahah!

@SandraMiserez-me2zd Ай бұрын

I'm french thank you so much for your react enjoy your day 😊

@marieadriansen2925 Ай бұрын

The Queen's Hamlet at Versailles is a set of rustic buildings inspired by Norman architecture . Commissioned by Marie-Antoinette in 1783, this rural village was designed by the architect Richard Mique . It consists of several fabriques (small houses) arranged around a lake, including the Queen's House, the Mill, Marlborough's Tower, and the Dairies. Norman houses are famous for their distinctive and charming features. They are often recognizable by their half-timbering, these exposed wooden structures with spaces filled with bricks, cob or stones. The pitched roof, usually thatched or slate, is another typical feature, designed to withstand the Normandy weather. .

@askenderiii2374 Ай бұрын

5'36 : This is Marie-Antoinette's "Hameau" (hamlet in english), you know, the beheaded queen during the french revolutiion ! It was built at her demand so that she could play at "farming" . It used to have chicken, cows, geese, sheep, a donkey, a working mill ... and of course people to man them (not a job fit for a queen ! ). But she spent many days there ... for a while ! The setting is incredible, though !

@roumiaou Ай бұрын

I have to say I'm impressed by your curiosity. Most french peolple don't know anything about all these details. You need to go & visit the whole thing. Keep being curious, that's a superb quality.

@benjaminlamey3591 Ай бұрын

big up for the 1000 people that work every day to make it possible for people to visit this place. it is a huge work and they do it great. It is a pity the subtitle do not work properly.

@karrigane Ай бұрын

I live 14 km from Versailles (I went to school and I worked there), I can attest that it is indeed a superb city and its castle, gardens and stables are sublime. An architecture to visit absolutely when you come to France ^^ Paris, another architectural style and different atmosphere, can wait 😀

@micade2518 Ай бұрын

Charlie, concerning the palace not having been occupied by royalty after Louis XVI, you ask "am I missing something?" You're just missing the 1789 French Revolution that ensued, as you rightly pointed out, while the royalty and the court were living lavishly, the people were starving, not only due to their being exploited but also because of bad crops due to climatic (yes, then already, but not man-made!) reasons!!! King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette were both beheaded (you must have heard of the guillotine?), and after a few erratic years, France finally became a Republic, in 1792. You might like to learn about what led to the French Revolution. Here it is: "The French Revolution from its origins to 1795 | History will tell us" (in French with English subtitles)

@karrigane Ай бұрын

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@retropaganda8442 Ай бұрын

I guess he already knows this was the beginning of the revolution.

@hellemarc4767 25 күн бұрын

Harpsichords have plucked strings, there are plectrums, usually made of bird quills, that pluck the strings, whereas piano strings are struck by small, wooden hammers. In harpsichords, the volume will always be the same, no matter how hard you press the keys. In pianos, you can play softly, or loudly, depending on how hard you press the keys.

@laurentdevaux5617 Ай бұрын

At 1:07:18, how this guy can say Madame de Pompadour refused to kiss the young Mozart because she was haughty ? It's ridiculous, the reason she refused is very well known : she was severely ill, diagnosed with tuberculosis and she didn't want to contaminate the young Mozart, nothing else ! At 1:04:03, the painter isn't a butcher... the name of this very famous painter was Boucher, which in fact means butcher. That doesn't mean he was ! Charlie, when this lady says at 1:03:05 "cheminée", it has nothing to do with the Belgian Chimay beer...

@ignatiuskhan Ай бұрын

1:04:03. Yes, auto-generated subs struck again

@bessonnet Ай бұрын

Normand means "from Normandy"

@PG-vx8uz 5 күн бұрын

And it's from "Norðmann" what means "north man".

@thierryf67 Ай бұрын

these subtitles are made by youtube.

@laurentdevaux5617 Ай бұрын

They should better find competent translators... the painter Boucher wasn't a butcher, among many examples of mistakes

@mariatheresavonhabsburg Ай бұрын

@@laurentdevaux5617 I think it's just an algorithm used by KZbin, it's not perfect and probably never will be. But you can sometimes select subtitles specifically made for a video, they are much more accurate.

@Beyllion 16 күн бұрын

@@laurentdevaux5617 How do you expect an automatic translator (algorithms, basically a bot) to know who Boucher is??? Be grateful that this technoogy even exist otherwise only he would've never been able to watch the video. The performance of the translator depends on how well people articulate, if they don't articulate well enough and slow enough, then the translation won't be good. But the translation was actually not bad at all (save for the moments where it cut).

@johnvonundzu2170 Ай бұрын

Norman style is the style of Normandy. Napoleon had nothing to do with the Sphinx's nose; it was long gone before he showed up.

@ignatiuskhan Ай бұрын

Mind the auto-generated subs. Their mention of "Le Nôtre" at 9:24 was subbed into "Ours". If "le nôtre" means "ours" in English, here they refer to "André Le Nôtre" who was the designer of Versailles gardens.

@LePhil79 Ай бұрын

30:15 It's from the 1989 movie "La révolution Française" ( made to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the revolution ). It's available for free on youtube with english subtitle ( it's in two roughly 3hrs each parts: "Les années lumières" and "Les années terribles" ). A must see movie for history buffs.

@valence686 Ай бұрын

Every time they say the name of the king, the subtitles break haha

@leonore6160 Ай бұрын

Merci pour ce reportage, depuis beaucoup d'autres restaurations magnifiques ont été réalisées. Je suis passionnée par Versailles et chacune de mes visites est un bonheur, ce domaine est un enchantement ❤ merci beaucoup de vous y être intéressé

@jonathanratel3150 Ай бұрын

1:19:35 Fire react man! 🔥Norman= Normandy not normal 😂

@redgruntlefurieux Ай бұрын

When pausing the video, you often need to rewind to the beginning of a sentence so the translation can catch up. It doesn't work every time. The automatic translation is not perfect, some words are incorrect. (It's worst when music in the background) Sometimes it was mixing up randomly Louis XIII, Louis XIV (son of Louis XIII), Louis XV (great grand-son of Louis XIV), Louis XVI (grand-son of Louis XV), even writing Louis XII for Louis XIII

@LOL22096 22 күн бұрын

That's fair, but to play devil's advocate, our royalty really needed to stop naming their children Louis xD Even if it's just the regnant name, by the 18th you have to realize it's gone too far

@heliedecastanet1882 Ай бұрын

Dear Charlie, in October 1789, a massive crowd reached Versailles and forced the king and the royal family to go back to Paris. From that moment, the palace was abandoned and closed. About 15 years later, Napoleon came back there, but he did not use the palace, only the Grand Trianon (a smaller private palace in the gardens) for his personal use. About 1840, the king Louis-Philippe decided to create a museum inside the palace, and that is what saved it from decay.

@bessonnet Ай бұрын

They know it is the right chest or fourniture because all was listed at the time, in books, with precise descriptions. And signed by the cabinetmakers. They were not thousands of identical pieces.

@PytheasFidus Ай бұрын

Translation of 5:13 to 5:44 "with them we will discover how in Versailles, the castle is refurnished to regain its appearance of a royal residence, as in the apartments of the daughters of Louis XV, or the small private offices of Louis XVI which exceptionally opened their doors to us. You will discover the latest restoration projects, such as Marie Antoinette's hamlet, and enter the workshops of craftsmen who bring exceptional objects back to life."

@PytheasFidus Ай бұрын

Translation of 10:43 to 11:26 "King Louis XIV acceded to the throne in 1643. He was 5 years old. Very attached to his father's castle, once he became an adult, he decided to carry out major works and had two new buildings built on either side of the courtyard."

@zabou7643 Ай бұрын

In the subtitles, you'll often see "the ladies" or "Mesdames". These are the 8 daughters of Louis 15 (1710-1774). They were called "Madam" + their first name. Example "Madame Victoire"

@marieadriansen2925 Ай бұрын

Having lived through the Fronde as a child, a tumultuous period of revolts against royal authority between 1648 and 1653, Louis XIV wanted to strengthen his power and prevent any future insubordination of the nobility. By centralizing the court at Versailles, away from the intrigues of Paris, he was able to exert direct control over the nobility, forcing them to live under his watchful eye. By building a palace of unparalleled grandeur, he wanted to solidify his image as a king. These efforts effectively transformed Versailles into a center of power and culture, consolidating Louis XIV's authority.

@wineandone 23 күн бұрын

Beautiful video contain! I'm french and I 've visited three times Versailles castle. I never get tired of it, very fond of 😄

@EtherealBlueRainbow Ай бұрын

A lot to comment on & please note that It's been an eternity since my last history lessons. For the historical context, a super accelerated, super simplified version: - Louis XIII builds a hunting lodge (then a slightly bigger & more chic edition), a place for him & his close people to run away from a time of turmoil & political machinations. He didn't have an easy life : dad assassinated when he was a kid, a terrible mother who basically stole his power for a while (she didn't want to give up power after her regency ended when he became an adult) , religious conflits between catholics & protestants. Then religious dominance of cardinals Richelieu then Mazarin. The king dies young leaving his son, 5yo, under another regency. - Louis XIV, the Sun king, is the monarch with the record of the longest reign, over 72 years. He learned his lessons early from troubled times & decides to solve multiple issues with one "stone", Versailles. He builds a bigger place he can move to, far enough away from the ever revolting Parisians. He makes the most grandiose place possible to establish his aura as an absolute monarch by divine right, enhancing the royal power to the extreme, reducing the power of the church, & that of the ever revolting, too powerful nobles. How? He drained them dry to build the castle, then with the elaborate court where getting the attention of the king meant spending lots of money on the best of the best. Still, there was revolting near the end of his life. - Louis XV was the great grandkid of Louis XIV, came into power at 5yo. Smart & reserved, he faced the ever growing opposition to the concept of divine power. The Enlightenment era pushed a lot of new ideas which started brewing in the background. - Louis XVI was the last king before the French Revolution. His kingdom faces financial difficulties he doesn't manage well. He is forced to move back to Paris, tries to run away but fails & ends up judged & condemned to death by guillotine alongside his wife. The French Revolution starts with good ideas of human rights & big changes that we still have today. But it devolves into a lot deaths by guillotine (it's complicated). - Napoleon I : he starts his power in the first Republic born from the Revolution, before making himself Emperor. He expands the French territory all over Europe, spreading the civil code & the French law style around (his most enduring legacy). Gets booted to a an island the first time when he looses to an Anglo-Prussian-Austrian alliance, manages to come back before a second exile much farther away on an island. - Then succeeds a back & forth of Monarchy, Empire & Republics, we're at number V since post WW2. Sorry, can't get into every one the regimes, but it was a lot change in a short time. Between the first Republic & these days, the country switched government types over 10 times with a lot of wars & revolts in between. That might explain why Versailles was kind of neglected in the mess.

@YannM 18 күн бұрын

Louis XIV was the greatest king of France. It was under his reign that our country was at the height of its power. France was the first power in the world, ahead of England, and it dominated the four corners of the world as far as America. The France of Louis XIV was a great empire and a model of civilization that other countries strove to imitate.

@laurentpaumier3103 4 күн бұрын

From a french viewer : I do like when you say "The worst channel on KZbin".You know you don't need to understand everything. You are humble and true. That's enough for me. This makes your channel great.

@SeArCh4DrEaMz Ай бұрын

This was exquisite and marvelous, thank you so much for reacting to videos like these, as far as I am concerned it is one of YOUR BEST reactions!! And yes I would agree with you the attention to detail is mind blowing. But all this wealth had a price..

@PytheasFidus Ай бұрын

@ItsCharlieVest If you want to understand Versailles, you must see and analyse the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte. This castle used the discoveries of its time on optics and perspective to establish new architectural rules. Rules which were also used much later in the USA, for example with the Washington Monument. If you understand this castle, you wille understand Versailles. Vaux-le-Vicomte is the model that will be adopted for Versailles.

@martinquessandier3282 Ай бұрын

35:07 😂 It was not just a storm... It was a revolution with the death of the king and the queen, and the revolution wars ended with Napoleon

@thierryf67 Ай бұрын

Normand village = a village from Normandy.

@christophe77700 Ай бұрын

It is a shame that KZbin's approximate translation makes the original comments lose a lot of interest and understanding.

@cynthiagauthier8897 Ай бұрын

Thank You for this journey through time. It mades me rediscover this palace that I have seen has a child with my classmates. I would like to visit it again, but they are so many people there nowmadays...

@grill38 Ай бұрын

56:20 the workers install the chest of drawers in one of the bedrooms of Louis XV's daughters What is partly rare is that on feminine furniture, it was generally designs with bouquets of flowers while here it is an architectural design on the facade

@tubekulose Ай бұрын

16:55 "Did any other kingdoms have that elaborate of a castle during that time?" This elaborate, of course! However, not necessarily this big. 1:18:56 What do mean by "if you weren't royalty, you were a peasant"? Why? What about merchants, soldiers, doctors, craftsmen, artisans, university professors, musicians, retailers, secretaries, clergy, sailors, bakers, administrative officials, postal clerks... ? Basically any profession that exists today existed back then as well. Also royalty was only a tiny group within nobility. And the other nobles for obvious reasons weren't peasants either. 😁 By the way, "Norman" means "related to Normandy" like "Swiss" means "related to Switzerland". A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. And no, Napoleon did not shoot off the Sphinx's nose. 😂

@paulloughlin1529 29 күн бұрын

how many times does this guy say "i don't know" or "i guess" in his videos. he is simply regurgitating facts taken directly from videos that are factual, and showing his ignorance accompanied with senseless remarks. what is the point of his mission? to be taken for a "savant, a "scholar" a "sage" an "intellectual". here in france he is considered "a ignoramus" and a good source for a laugh. ! an insult to history, geography and french culture. why does he not simply stick his head in a book and inform himself instead of showing the world that he comes from "the united mistakes of america". "there is a beer called chimay ( 1 hour 3 mins) ok i'm gone, i'm out of here, such ignorance is unbearable. i am an irish long time resident of brittany who has been confronted with misinformed visitors to france before, but this guy if ever there is an "oscar " for cretin's, he will win it hands down.

@thierryf67 Ай бұрын

the pigment changes with the time... so original red became orange.

@valerieresistance-francais7708 Ай бұрын

"Normand" is the style from "Normandie". Normandie (Normandy) is near Bretagne (Brittany) It's the part of France that is the nearest to England.

@paulloughlin1529 29 күн бұрын

i am irish (irlandais) living in brittany, and i am wondering how & why a french woman would refer to "la bretagne" as "bretany", the part of france that is the nearest "TO" england.

@valerieresistance-francais7708 26 күн бұрын

@@paulloughlin1529 C'est une erreur de ma part ! Il y a une semaine, quand j'ai écrit ce commentaire, j'étais très fatiguée, vu que je n'avais pas dormi depuis 3 jours. Je dors très peu ! Et quand je suis très fatiguée, il m'arrive de faire des fautes ! Et mon anglais n'est pas parfait à 100 %. Merci de m'avoir fait remarquer mon erreur, je vais rectifier mon premier message.

@bessonnet Ай бұрын

Louis the 15 th is the great grandson of Louis the 14th

@Searover749 Ай бұрын

only his grandson !

@tubekulose Ай бұрын

Yes, Louis XIV happened to survive his sons and grandsons.

@bessonnet Ай бұрын

@@Searover749 no, Great-grandson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV

@azelia05 23 күн бұрын

Merci for your interest on French culture! He said that Versailles's idea came from King Louis XIII (13). Then, his son King Louis XIV (14) became king at 5 and when he became an adult, he was very attached to his father's castle and continued his project. Maybe you could also react to some French singers/bands? ;)

@first-dooblette6911 Ай бұрын

🇫🇷 France 🇫🇷

@marieadriansen2925 Ай бұрын

The furniture and decorative objects of Versailles were a marvel. Unfortunately, many are in private collections and museums around the world. Others are in English and European castles. It's sad!

@letitiakearney2423 Ай бұрын

Charlie you need to google as you go along and you will understand more. You need to know about the Norman times and their architecture which you seem to be clueless but do your research as it’s great you have an interest in European history.

@paulloughlin1529 29 күн бұрын

this dude is completely "clueless" right across the board, from start to finish. good for a laugh though !

@paulozavala3232 Ай бұрын

Hej Charlie! You seem to really like french history! Why not learn french? Maybe here online with us?

@polsteambeluga1827 Ай бұрын

Monsieur le vicomte Charlie, nous vous en prions venez donc flâner à la cour ! Joignez vous aux festivités et coquetteries du palais .... ;) When someone have such a great interest in a culture, understanding even a part of the language can provide many answers. Thank you for this interest.

@yvesclepkens242 Ай бұрын

Hello I'm french 😏. Louis XIV is a very controversial king. In one way he contributed to made France as a center of western culture. He killed an incredible number of Protestants in France. And African workers during the colonization of America. While being rather friendly with certain Native American peoples... Unlike the English who were massacrers of blacks and Native Americans during the same time. It's hard to say which is better. Not true?

@ado6017 Ай бұрын

Si vous traversez tout le jardin de Versailles et donc sortez au bout, vous arrivez à la ville de Chambourcy.

@first-dooblette6911 Ай бұрын

Oh oui 😉

@ado6017 Ай бұрын

@@first-dooblette6911 😂😂😂

@first-dooblette6911 Ай бұрын

@@ado6017 nos bonnes vieilles pubs😉🇫🇷💪

@michelinep1892 Ай бұрын

I live where Louis XIV was born, near Versailles. Watching this video made me want to rediscover the Palace of Versailles. I’ll take advantage of the low season, away from the tourists. Merci

@laurentdevaux5617 Ай бұрын

Et où avez-vous vu que Louis XIV est né à Versailles ? Il est né au château de Saint-Germain en Laye !

@michelinep1892 Ай бұрын

@@laurentdevaux5617 I live where Louis XIV was born, near Versailles

@laurentdevaux5617 Ай бұрын

@@michelinep1892 It depends on what you mean by "near Versailles"... The distance between Versailles, where the king lived his last years and died and Saint Germain, where is was born, is 14 km. In 2024, it's true that's not far away... Only one king was born, lived all his life and died in Versailles, Louis XV. His three grandsons were also born here, but none of them died in Versailles. Sic transit...

@gsbeak Ай бұрын

The automatic translation from the subtitles is very bad. "Atelier de dorure" is translated as "Horror workshop" when it should be "Gilding workshop" for example." "ces cadres" : "these frames" translated as "C4" !

@Beyllion 16 күн бұрын

That's because the people in the video were not speaking and articulating properly. To a trained french ear maybe that sounded like proper articulation but it actually wasn't. The first woman who speaks actually articulates very well and the translation has no issue with her but the other people don't speak as clearly as her. Names are always gonna be harder to recognize because it's impossible for a program to tell that Boucher is a family name and not a butcher.

@sdadou49 Ай бұрын

Versailles est le règne des faux semblants, ce qui ressemble à de l’or ne l’est pas forcement, tout comme ce qui semble être des marbres ne le sont pas forcement 😉 C’est d’ailleurs ce qui a permis de conserver intacte certain chef d’oeuvres.

@first-dooblette6911 Ай бұрын

Pareil pour ton cerveau,ça paraît plein mais y'a rien dedans 😉🇫🇷💪

@sdadou49 Ай бұрын

@@first-dooblette6911 Certes, vous me voyez fort aise de recevoir un avis si construit, argumenté, empli de bienveillance et ayant pour ambition/aspiration/dessein un partage constructif. Ne changez pas vous êtes tellement utile à ce monde: « Comme contre exemple »

@sdadou49 Ай бұрын

@@first-dooblette6911 Vous me voyez fort aise de recevoir un avis si construit, argumenté, bienveillant, ayant pour dessein/ambition/aspiration un partage constructif. Vous l’aurez compris je l’espère c’était de l’ironie mais ne changer pas vous êtes très utile au monde: « comme contre exemple » Adieu

@sdadou49 Ай бұрын

@@first-dooblette6911 Pardonnez moi de vous reprendre sur votre syntaxe, mais vu que vous vous permettez de me prendre de haut… « Pareil pour ton cerveau, ça parait plein mais il n’y a rien dedans », après il est admis qu’il sera plus jolie de dire « cela parait », mais c’est plus une histoire de goût et culturel que de règle établie. Bisous bisous

@first-dooblette6911 Ай бұрын

@@sdadou49 Voilà c'est bien ce que je pensais,un bon gros débile.Tu te prends pour Lafontaine ? Moi,je dirais plus que tu es la fosse septique de la France 😉🇫🇷💪,et je suis sur qu'un teuber comme toi soutien LFI (les feignasses intellectuel)😉

@yudjinnier3276 Ай бұрын

Hi Charlie ! i'm glad you like History as much as i do, and also France's History. i do recommand these documentaries : "Apocalypse" in my sense they are the best documentaries ever made. The one about 1stWW is incredible with footages of that time.

@taousgrabi8069 Ай бұрын

Normand means from Normandy🙂.

@marieadriansen2925 Ай бұрын

They respect history and authenticity above all for the castle and gardens as they were in the 18th century. It's a lot of research and work! What a pity that many treasures have been scattered all over the world!

@LindaLoobuyck Ай бұрын

When I see Versailles it makes me think about the movie series with Michele Mercier Angelique "marquise des anges" I still love it today.❤❤❤❤And yes the rich were very rich and the poor where extremely poor.😢😢😢😢

@ayannafit2441 12 күн бұрын

For the parts where the subtitles don't work you can use google translate on your phone and use it to listen to the audio and translate 😅

@oakpope Ай бұрын

The translation is horrendous. You're missing quite a lot of what is actually talk about, not just because of the blank.

@olivierleluduec2609 13 күн бұрын

Nice man :) You have well working. I like it !

@xlittlecamx 17 күн бұрын

Dammnn youtube subtitles are so bad 😆 Louis 14th did raise a lot of money to pay for new buildings and wars, which made taxes higher for the people at the time, but we can credit him for making France the most important and influencial kingdom of the period and this is why still today France has such an aura around the world. About Louis 15th, he was a reserved and melancholic man, he liked his privacy and dining with a small group of friends, which was unusual for a French king at the time.

@YannM 18 күн бұрын

You know, we French are a paradox. We made the revolution and cut off the head of one of our kings but today we regret our history and we celebrate our monarchical heritage. We remained royalists with the appearance of republicans. Yes, I know, we are a strange people.

@thierryf67 Ай бұрын

the statues are the original ones, stored to be protected.

@denisdonadio9682 21 күн бұрын

Bonjour et merci de parler de notre beau pays.

@arianemartin9659 27 күн бұрын

Cher Monsieur merci de faire connaître l histoire de France a vos compatriotes Américains.

@cedricserieys9768 Ай бұрын

The automatic translation is terrible, some words are just placed out of context; then some sentences are... bizarre!

@Beyllion 16 күн бұрын

Do you realize that the technology is still great? It's instant automatic translation in dozens of language. You can't expect it to be perfect! The subtitles were still perfectly understandable.

@zorglub20770 Ай бұрын

at times the subtiitles really suck "contemporains -> temporary accounts!!!"

@Matexde Ай бұрын

Where the independance of the USA was signed, don't forget many American contibutors paid to renovate the palace.

@marieadriansen2925 Ай бұрын

They respect history and authenticity above all. It's a lot of research and work! What a pity that all these treasures have been scattered throughout the world!

@biche1835 Ай бұрын

Le hameau de la Reine est inspiré par les villages de Normandie, seule province visitée par Louis XVI au cours de son règne.

@charles2251 Ай бұрын

I m french, this is fine

@biche1835 Ай бұрын

Si vous avez un jour l'occasion de venir visiter le château de Versailles, outre la visite de la galerie des glaces et des appartements de Louis XIV, offrez vous les "visites privées " qui vous méneront dans des zones moins fréquentées et très intéressantes. Prévoyez plus qu'une journée si vous voulez avoir un apperçu du château, des jardins, du petit et du grand trianon, du hameau de la reine...

@marieadriansen2925 Ай бұрын

The nose of the Sphinx of Giza was broken in the fourteenth century. According to a widely accepted theory, a Sufist (a Muslim mystic) deliberately damaged the Sphinx's nose and ears because he could not stand peasants coming to leave offerings there. He was hanged for this vandalism and burned at the foot of the statue

@Searover749 Ай бұрын

nose destroyed by islamists, like the bouddhas of banyan were destroyed by talibans in 2002.

@ryandeschanel6925 10 күн бұрын

Serre = greenhouse Cerf = deer Same sound. Different meanings.

@nox8730 25 күн бұрын

9:23: She says Le Nôtre (André), not 'ours'. He was the guy who first created the gardens of Versailles in the 17th century. 23:10: No, commoners weren't invited... The select few honored to share the king's meals were all nobles. Inviting a commoner to his table would be beyond unthinkable and defeat the whole purpose of building Versailles in the first place. Versailles was a political tool to showcase the king power. The King is up high in the sky, he doesn't mingle with commoners during diner. Maybe some very special ones have partaken, like Lully, but i am not even sure of that. 31:15: How did the people got hungry? To sum things up: the american war of independance was very costly to France. To top it off, the newly proclaimed USA refused to pay back the vast amounts of money France lent them to support their independance war. They finally paid the sums the owed 15 years later. In the meantime, the Kingdom sank deep in debt. In order to find a solution to that, they raised taxes even more. While a the same time, disasters ruined crops. This situation lasted for years and made life very difficult for the people, which led to insurrections. Not everything is a "king problem". There are many factors to make any situation. The USA had a part in this disaster, too. 55:55: It is rare because hesaid "Mesdames", and the automatic translation understood it as "ladies". But by "Mesdames", the curator meant "Louis XV's daughters". Furniture that were owned by the princesses themselves are not all that common, obviously. The automatic translator fails often here. At some point, it transated "heigh" when it should have been "author", because "hauteur" and "auteur" are pronounced the same in french. 1:45:20: He doesn't say that History is fabricated here. He says that the way History is represented in the painting IS fabricated to look better. He gave an example with Napoléon, who crossed the Alps on a mule but is painted on a proud stallion. He DID cross the Alps, only the images are made to look better. As a side note, do you understand now why americans calling historical monuments in France "attractions" really pisses me off?

@mango2005 Ай бұрын

The Royal Palace of Madrid is bigger. Was built in 1700s about 1800 rooms.

@biche1835 Ай бұрын

Le château de Versailles(63154 m2) n'est pas le plus grand château du monde ni même de France! Par exemple, le palais du Louvre (135000m2) sur les plans duquel d'ailleurs a été construit celui de Madrid(135000m2 également) est plus grand. Par contre le domaine, et ses 800 ha (contre 3,3ha pour Madrid) avec ses jardins, ses bassins, son grand canal, ses palais est plus grand que Manhattan ou même que Paris! Mais le domaine du château de Chambord, avec ses 5433ha est encore bien plus grand!

@marieadriansen2925 Ай бұрын

Upon his accession to the throne in 1774, Louis XVI inherited a kingdom plagued by serious financial problems due to costly wars, including the American War of Independence. . Attempts at tax reforms failed, making the situation worse. The years leading up to the Revolution were marked by poor harvests and famine, which exacerbated the anger and misery of the people. Many factors led to the French Revolution. .

@thierryf67 Ай бұрын

this furniture was an original found and restored, from a daughter of the king Louis XV. it's not remake.

@paulloughlin1529 29 күн бұрын

for americans with no real history and no culture, they think everything comes from ikea.

@jrault7589 Ай бұрын

No, Napoleon never shut the nose of the sphinx.

@laurentdevaux5617 Ай бұрын

Yes, Obelix did it !

@tubekulose Ай бұрын

Exactly, Obelix broke it off. 🙂

@vuillemardromain4259 15 күн бұрын

Bonjour et merci de mettre en avant notre beau patrimoine.

@PyromancerRift 21 күн бұрын

Napoleon didn't shot the nose off the sphynx. Muslims did it because the sphynx have a human face, it is an idol. Idolatry is forbidden in islam and removing parts of the face make them not idols anymore.

@first-dooblette6911 Ай бұрын

Merci !👍🇫🇷it's for the last link in your patreon.(7 minutes)

@brigetoun 29 күн бұрын

beaucoup de choses avaient été vendues pendant la Révolution

@thierryf67 Ай бұрын

may be the clock is in gilded bronze.

@Searover749 Ай бұрын

new bronze looks like gold for some months, but then, it turns to brown quite quickly, due to oxydation. gilded bronze looks like old gold for centuries, is more solid, and has approximately the same weight. so you can play the Billionnaire, showing that "fake gold" everywhere, but "just" be a "poor" millionnaire...😂

@laurrentbarre8605 Ай бұрын

If you want to know more why the casel was abondonned you need to see othersimplify french revolution!

@paulloughlin1529 29 күн бұрын

casel ? achat un dictionnaire.

@vchiron1054 Ай бұрын

Never forget that English language is a French language badly pronounced !

@first-dooblette6911 Ай бұрын

Vas y, argumentes pour voir 🤔

@morphilou 29 күн бұрын

versailles it is 63 000 m2 (675 000 ft2) and 2300 pieces today even the furtinure not 100% original is estimated at 50 billions ==> 80 trump tower

@stephanedaguet915 Ай бұрын

The translation sucks a little bit ...

@laurentdevaux5617 Ай бұрын

A little bit ? You're too kind...

@Searover749 Ай бұрын

@@laurentdevaux5617 ja, ein gross bit !

@stephanedaguet915 Ай бұрын

@@laurentdevaux5617 Oui je sais ... mais c'est bizarre, des fois des phrases compliquées sont parfaitement traduites ... 😋

@laurentdevaux5617 Ай бұрын

@@stephanedaguet915 C'est juste... À se demander si le travail n'a pas été fait par un vrai traducteur pour une partie, et par un amateur pour d'autres. Mais bon, quand on voit les erreurs qu'il y a dans le film, comme l'anecdote de la Pompadour et de Mozart (entre autres), ou que Franck Ferrand est qualifié d'historien (sans rire...), alors que d'autres parties sont nettement plus rigoureuses, on se dit que les sous-titres sont cohérents avec le reste. Autrement dit inégaux.

@stephanedaguet915 Ай бұрын

@@laurentdevaux5617 Tout a fait, c'est exactement l'impression que j'avais ... ce serai vraiment étrange comme procédé ...